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Beverly Hills Unified School District recall, California (2022-2023)
| Beverly Hills Unified School District recall |
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| Officeholders |
Amanda Stern Mary Wells |
| Recall status |
| Signature requirement |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2023 Recalls in California California recall laws School board recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall three of the five members of the Beverly Hills Unified School District Board of Education in California did not go to a vote in 2023. Recall supporters did not file paperwork by a county deadline. Noah Margo, Amanda Stern, and Mary Wells were named in the recall petitions.[1][2]
The recall effort started after Ryan Faintich was fired from his position as a high school wrestling coach in November 2022 by Superintendent Michael Bregy. The decision to fire Faintich came after video surveillance showed Faintich pushing a student on campus.[3]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in California
To get a recall effort on the ballot in California, supporters must collect petition signatures equal to 10% to 30% of registered voters in the jurisdiction depending on the size of the jurisdiction's population. They have between 40 and 160 days to circulate the petitions depending on the size of the jurisdiction's population.[4]
Before recall petitions can be circulated, initial paperwork must be filed with the relevant county election office. Supporters of the recall against Margo, Stern, and Wells served the three members with a notice of intent to recall on December 13, 2022. They filed that notice of intent with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, but they did not file paperwork showing that they had properly published the notice of intent in at least one newspaper.[1]
2023 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
Ballotpedia tracked 48 school board recall efforts against 97 board members in 2023. Sixteen of those board members faced recall elections. The recall elections were held on January 10, 2023, August 1, 2023, August 8, 2023, August 29, 2023, November 7, 2023, and December 12, 2023. The school board recall success rate was 13.4%.
The chart below details the status of 2023 recall efforts by individual school board member.
2022 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
Ballotpedia tracked 54 school board recall efforts against 123 board members in 2022. Recall elections against school board members were held on January 11, 2022, January 18, 2022, January 24, 2022, February 15, 2022, March 29, 2022, April 4, 2022, and November 8, 2022. The school board recall success rate was 7.3%.
The chart below details the status of 2022 recall efforts by individual school board member.
See also
- Beverly Hills Unified School District, California
- Recall campaigns in California
- Political recall efforts, 2023
- Political recall efforts, 2022
- School board recalls
- States that allow school board recalls
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Beverly Hills Unified School District
- Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patch, "Beverly Hills Unified Recall Effort Called Off," January 20, 2023
- ↑ Beverly Hills Unified School District, "Board Members," accessed January 24, 2023
- ↑ Beverly Hill Courier, "BHUSD Board Members Served with Recall Notice," December 16, 2022
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "Recall of Local Officials," accessed July 27, 2021
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